Dynamics of Marine Ecosystems. Biological–Physical Interactions in the Oceans
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Author(s): K. H. Mann and J. R. N. Lazier
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing
ISBN: 1405111186
Format: softback
492pp
Price: £50.00, $74.95
Review Date: 26 January 2006
Review: This new edition of the undergraduate textbook gives up-to-date coverage of the effects of biological–physical interactions in the oceans, from the microscopic to the global scale. The influence of physical forces acting on biological processes in a wide range of marine habitats is examined. These habitats include: coastal estuaries, shelf-break fronts, major ocean gyres, coastal upswelling areas, and the equatorial upswelling system. The processes are examined according to scale: a scale of less than 1 kilometre, 1–1000 kilometres, and thousands of kilometres.